Church of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is an Early-English style church, likely dating to the 13th century, with later additions and alterations. It consists of a nave with a lower and narrower chancel, a south aisle of equal length to the nave and chancel, a west bellcote, and a south porch. The walls are constructed of rubble stone, with a slate roof and coped gables to the west end. The south porch has a coped gable with an iron finial, and a pointed doorway with a continuous chamfer and boarded door.

The south aisle features three hooded two-light windows with Y-tracery, along with a triple-lancet east window. The three-light chancel east window has cusped intersecting tracery. The north wall of the nave and chancel is battered at the base. The chancel includes a single hooded cusped light on the north side, and a blockwork lean-to boiler room. A shallow projection at the east end of the nave formerly housed a rood stair, and now contains a two-light Y-tracery window, with a similar window further to the right. The nave has a blocked pointed west doorway and a pronounced batter at its base. Above the former doorway is a two-light hooded window and the gabled drip stones of a former double bellcote. The west wall of the south aisle is slightly set back from the line of the nave, revealing the original batter of the nave’s south wall.

Two slate tablets commemorate members of the Rees family, including Thomas Rees (died 1825), mostly children, with an illegible slate tablet nearby. The gabled bellcote projects on a corbel table and has a segmental opening for a single bell.

Inside, modern plaster ceilings cover the interior. The chancel arch is low and pointed, likely medieval, but has been plastered over, obscuring any original mouldings. The two-bay nave arcade is from the early 19th century, featuring an octagonal pier and segmental arches with two orders of chamfer. The two-bay chancel arcade has a similar style, but with wide elliptical arches. The south aisle has been converted into a vestry.

A plain octagonal font is of late medieval design. Plain pews and the pulpit with blind Gothic panels date to the late 19th century. A wooden screen on the south side of the chancel is from around 1900, and the communion rail from 1968. A simple slate tablet on the south wall of the vestry commemorates Esther Davies (died 1786) and her family, created by John Maliphant of Kidwelly. Two windows contain stained glass: the east window, dated 1913, depicts the crucifixion, and a south aisle window, dated 1995, portrays the Ascension and was created by Gabriel Loire of Chartres.

The vestry also houses an early Christian memorial stone with Latin text, and a cross-incised slab, possibly originally an altar stone, brought in from the churchyard. These items are designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (CM071).